Safety-razor.



No. 841,916. PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907. P. H. ARNOLD.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT.15,1906.

I/Vi I?" eases UNITED sTArE-s J nEENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK H. ARNOLD, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

\ SAFETY-RAZOR- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed September 15,1906. Serial No. 334.787.

. razor of simple construction, having but few parts and capable of being used with either and, provision being made for cutting from both sides of the guard-plate.

The invention consists of a single-piece holder comprising a handle and guard and a perforated double-edge blade ca able of being quickly and accurately lacer in position, the principal object being t e ease and rapidity with which the blade may be placed or removed.

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly illustrated in .the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan View, Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the under side, of my razor. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the blade.

The entire holder comprises a handle 1 and a guard 2, formed integral therewith and having the usual teeth 3.

The guard is formed with a rectangular slot 4 near either end, and to the upper face thereof, at approximately the center, is secured a plate-spring 5, having its extremities curved away from the surface of the guard. To the under side of the ends of this spring I form depending legs 6, which legs pass through an fit loosely in the slots 4.

These legs are each formed witha foot 7 on its lower extremity, which-feet extend to ward each other. l The numeral 8 indicates the blade, which is preferably made-of thin sheet metal with two cutting edges. It is also formed with a rectangular perforation 9 near either end, very slightly larger than the feet 7 and adapted to re ister therewith.

When it is esired to place the blade in position, the ends of thespring are pressed down, which action tends to slightly increase the distance between the feet 7, and the blade is then placed. against the guard,

the feet .7 entering the perforations 9. When.

the spring is released, the return to normal position will cause the feet 7 to engage and securely hold the blade against the guard.

The blade may of coursebe reversed, as

the perforations are central and located the 7 same distance from either end.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a safety-razor, a holder having a guard formed integral therewith and having a rec-' tangular slot near either end, a spring secured to the upper face of said guard, depending legs formed on the extremities of said spring, said legs assing through said slots, feet formed on t e lOWGIfi-BIICIS' of said legs in combination with a blade 'of'thin sheet metal having rectangular openings adapted to register with said feet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificatiorf in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' FREDERICK H. ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

M. C. KREIDER, ED. W. KELLY. 

